Nice one Kukonaya I’ve just checked out your town/village on google maps and it looks like you’re slap bang in the middle of 3 (count them)3 mountains. The biggest by looks of it is Mount Haruna at 4.7k feet. Nice! Good riding round there?

Strange thread, I have never insulted anyone on this thread, yet I am getting insulted left right and center from people that do not even know me

Kukonaya: this is the UK (the world hub of sarcasm, irony, satire and mockery), and an Internet forum, and populated in-the-main by old-than-average know-it-all cycling geeks. This is how we roll!

it’s all humour and no harm or ill-intent is EVER intended. Every witticism and wise-crack is delivered with a wry smile. You’re new here so you get a double helping for a bit; suck it up and dish it back out. Never take it seriously, and never revert to name-calling and proper rudeness (the mods don’t tolerate it, and neither do we)

Was just across from you in Hokuta a couple of months ago riding at a mountain bike park there (Fujimi Panarama), great place and yes very ‘out in the country’.
As above, don’t worry about style and go for hard wearing comfortable gear first, the smile you wear riding is more important than the cloths…..although don’t save money on safety gear.

kukonaya I am prepared to come to Japan to be your personal mountain biking style specialist. Like any good employer you’ll have to pay for my airfare and I only fly business class. I’ll also need some accomodation whilst out there so I’ll need a large 5 bedroomed house with a pool and a sauna. Also if you could sort out a couple of female masseuse(s?) to give me a massage after a hard days mountain biking in the mountains behind my house and I’ll need at very least a Cannondale Jekyll to ride on. In turn I’ll bring out a selection of biking clothing from top British sports clothing store ‘Sports Direct’ who only make the very best in sporting apparel incl those bumbags which I mentioned earlier. I await your positive reply, yours Jek.

kukonaya I am prepared to come to Japan to be your personal mountain biking style specialist. Like any good employer you’ll have to pay for my airfare and I only fly business class. I’ll also need some accomodation whilst out there so I’ll need a large 5 bedroomed house with a pool and a sauna. Also if you could sort out a couple of female masseuse(s?) to give me a massage after a hard days mountain biking in the mountains behind my house and I’ll need at very least a Cannondale Jekyll to ride on. In turn I’ll bring out a selection of biking clothing from top British sports clothing store ‘Sports Direct’ who only make the very best in sporting apparel incl those bumbags which I mentioned earlier. I await your positive reply, yours Jek.

Jekkyl, they do not send stuff to Japan it looks like only UK for delivery. Looks like a good variety but quality perhaps not great due to cheap price?

Style is how you move, not what you wear. That’s why something unfashionable last year becomes the height of fashion this year. The clothes change from tight to loose, from subdued to bold, and back again. But style is immutable.

heya cougar, I spend a lot of time in Zimbabwe still, but mostly in Japan these days. I never ride in Zim though and have never but there are some good trails. I go to Zim about once or twice a month on average 🙂

Kukonaya, it’s worth pointing out, if just for context, this forum and its associated namesake magazine, is biased towards riders that are more interested in riding, than what bike they are riding.(and yes, I’m generalizing here). So I’m not surprised that the response has been mostly incredulous.

Coolness and style are not something that comes up on group MTB rides that I’m aware off anyway, with the following exceptions:

1. Getting your shorts caught on your saddle, ripping it wide open far from home: Not cool.
2. Having your mates piss take because of it: Cool
3. Repairing said shorts with tape and zip-ties: Cool
4. Wearing same shorts for the next 5 rides: Not cool
5. Wearing shorts that allow Surrey mud down your crackhole: Not cool
6. Watching part time riders turn up on BSO’s wearing jeans: Not cool
7. Trying to look cool: Not cool.

Coolest guy I ever saw was a 60+ year old guy drop me for dust on a climb in wales, on his old rusty hybrid, on his way home from work, in overalls and workshoes. Coolest dude. Ever.